clock | September 6, 2008Honest Lovers? Fallow Buck Groans Reveal Their Status And Size During The Rut:
It is known that the phonic structure of calls produced by males during the breeding season may signal quality-related characteristics in many different types of animals. Previous research on mammals has mainly focused on the relationship between the acoustic components of vocalizations and one aspect of male quality: body size.
Digitizing Archives From The 17th Century:
A researcher on a short trip to a foreign country, with little money, but a digital camera in hand has devised a novel approach to digitizing…
clock | September 5, 2008No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
clock | September 5, 2008Here are some of my best posts from August, in my own opinion. You know it is a small proportion of all posts, but even if I posted only these, that's quite a nice blog right there if I may say so myself ;-)
What I try to do when I travel abroad across several time zones
Well versed in science
Vote McCain?
Importance of History of Science (for scientists and others)
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule? By eliminating Free Market, of course
Paperless Office? Bwahahahaha!
Science vs. Britney Spears
Domestication - it's a matter of time (always is for me, that's my 'hammer' for all nails…
clock | September 5, 2008We know that the GOP has been incapable of and uninterested in governing for about half a century now. We know they have run on personality, not issues since at least 1980, since they have no issues that are palatable to the public.
But they used to be fantastic at campaigning and parades and symbolism and organization, unmatched even by famous shows put up by Mao and Kim Il Sung when they celebrated arrival of important guests or national holidays. What happened?
How did they manage to get upstaged and outshined by Democrats? They could not hide their hall was half-empty. They could not…
clock | September 5, 2008Wikipedia:
Maverick steadfastly refused to brand his cattle. As a result, the word maverick entered the English lexicon, meaning both an unbranded range animal as well as a slang term for someone who exhibits a streak of stubborn independence.
clock | September 5, 2008...is coming this way. It's been drizzling a little bit all day, but we expect a lot more rain tonight and over the weekend.
clock | September 5, 2008Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake:
A Universite Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic, are published in the most recent issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.
Children With TVs Or Computers In Their Room Sleep Less:
Middle school children who have a television or computer in their room sleep less during the school year, watch more TV, play more computer games and surf the net…
clock | September 5, 2008There are 9 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Sampling for Global Epidemic Models and the Topology of an International Airport Network:
Mathematical models that describe the global spread of infectious diseases such as influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and tuberculosis (TB) often consider a sample of international airports as a network supporting disease spread. However, there is no…
clock | September 5, 2008...clone of Professor Steve Steve? Ehrm, the 900th Steve on the listing of the Project Steve?
clock | September 5, 2008NC State Is First University in Nation to Offer Canine Bone Marrow Transplants
Dogs suffering from lymphoma will be able to receive the same type of medical treatment as their human counterparts, as North Carolina State University becomes the first university in the nation to offer canine bone marrow transplants in a clinical setting.
Dr. Steven Suter, assistant professor of oncology in NC State's College of Veterinary Medicine, received three leukophoresis machines donated by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Leukophoresis machines are designed to harvest healthy stem cells from cancer…
clock | September 5, 2008Message from Sigma Xi:
You may know that Duke University is home to the Duke Lemur Center (http://lemur.duke.edu/), the world's largest sanctuary for rare and endangered prosimian primates. But do you know its research? For a glimpse, attend Sigma Xi's first 2007-2008 pizza lunch at noon, Wednesday, Sept 24. Center director Anne Yoder will speak on the "Historical bio-geography of Madagascar: Using genes to study the evolution of an island" as well as field your questions.
Pizza lunch is free. RSVPs required to cclabby AT amsci DOT org. Directions to Sigma XI: http://www.sigmaxi.org/about/…
clock | September 5, 2008Can anyone send me the actual paper that is described in the first press release on this list, please?
What Is A Gene? Media Define the Concept In Many Different Ways:
Even scientists define 'a gene' in different ways, so it comes as little surprise that the media also have various ways of framing the concept of a gene, according to a new study. The study, Frame that gene, is based on the analysis of 300 articles in British and Norwegian newspapers: The Guardian, The Sun and The Daily Mail from the UK; and Aftenposten, Dagbladet, and VG from Norway.
Mom's Mood, Baby's Sleep: What's The…
clock | September 5, 2008It worked so well for them:
The cash keeps flowing in to the Obama campaign in the wake of Sarah Palin's speech, suggesting that whatever effect she's had on the GOP base has been duplicated on the Democratic side.
Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor confirms that the campaign has now pulled in over $10 million since her speech -- a "one day record," Vietor says.
"I hope she gives a speech every day," Vietor joked.
Separately, the RNC reportedly raised $1 million after the speech.
You know Obama was not my man in the primaries. I really made my decision to vote for him instead of Clinton on the…
clock | September 5, 2008Compare this....
....to this:
Now go back to all of these Compare&Contrast videos. I have paired them, IMHO, in a reasonable way. But what I did is not watch them, but LISTEN to them instead. So, if you have time and inclination, do the same: start the video and minimize the page and listen instead of watching.
When watching, a lot of things are distractions and everyone looks better. But when I just listened, the Republicans sounded much weaker. McCain's voice is shaky and betrays his age. Palin sounded like one of those 'mean girls' in high school running for class president…
clock | September 5, 2008Cancer Research Blog Carnival #13 is up on Highlight HEALTH
Friday Ark #207 is up on Modulator.
clock | September 4, 2008The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson